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to Rabaul, 2007 Anne McCosker It was December 1974 when I last saw my birth town Rabaul. Now in 2007 I had returned. Perhaps because I had spent the intervening years researching, writing, publishing Masked Eden, a History of the Australians in New Guinea, as well as writing poetry about the Islands, nothing seemed unfamiliar. Or perhaps it was because my personal roots are there, its tragic history mine. So begins Anne's
Una Voce article (September 2007, pages 44
- 46
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This is Mango Avenue in 1974, looking North. The Rabaul Hotel is in the distant right.
Anne on Mango Avenue in 2007, looking South. Nearly all the buildings in this area of Rabaul were destroyed by the weight of volcanic ash in 1994.
The Trinity Press Building in Mango Avenue, 2007. It is now a private home.
Anne McCosker's first three books of poetry were published here in the 1970s.
